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WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 Xinhua on the 2nd U.S. President Barack Obama said the United States by the end of August will be scheduled to end combat missions in Iraq, the withdrawal of combat troops. The remaining U.S. troops will provide support to Iraqi forces until the end of next year all of the withdrawal.

Obama day in Atlanta,may still be A secret war, Georgia, United States Veterans Disability said in a speech during the General Assembly, combat troops from Iraq's actions are carried out according to plan, the U.S. military has closed or transfer of hundreds of Iraq military bases, transported out of the millions of pieces of military equipment, troops will be on August 31 before the schedule. He said that by the end of August this year, since he took office in January last year, since the withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq will be more than 9 million people.

according to Obama's withdrawal timetable for U.S. combat troops will withdraw from Iraq by the end of August before all of the remaining approximately 5 million people will withdraw before the end of 2011. Obama said that after the withdrawal of all combat troops remain in Iraq until the U.S. non-combat troops will be primarily responsible for the withdrawal of Iraqi forces to provide support and training, counter-terrorism with the Iraqi side to implement the task, as well as U.S. personnel and goals security and so on.

withdrawal of U.S. troops in full swing, while the security situation in Iraq in recent nosedive, a chain of suicide bombings occurred intensive. Official figures show that violent attacks in Iraq in July because of the number of civilians have died in two years a new high. At the same time, Iraq on March 7 parliamentary elections into a political deadlock, the new government has barely formed, so that the outside world after the U.S. pullout from Iraq, the political and security concerns about the future.

(This article Source: Xinhua on: Wang Fengfeng)